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The aim of the Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science is to publish original research articles and reviews in the general field of behavioural and brain function. Articles dealing with the neuroanatomical and neurochemical basis of behavior are especially welcomed. Multidisciplinary contributions from all fields of t…
Motoaki Sugiura, Rüdiger J. Seitz, Hans-Ferdinand Angel, 1 1
Departing from the long debates on the role of faith/belief, recent interdisciplinary research has turned to characterize the features of the psychophysical processes underlying believing. Here we review recent cognitive neuroscience models of the believing p…
Susan M. Bowyer, Klevest Gjini, Xiao Zhu, Lawrence Kim, John E. Moran, Syeda U. Rizvi, Valentina Gumenyuk, Norman Tepley, Nash N. Boutros
Previous studies examining coherence and connectivity deviations in schizophrenia patients relied on standard coherence measures between recording sites (at the sensor level). A coherence source imaging (CSI) methodology where coherence is assessed within ima…
Darryl J. Mayeaux, Maxwell B. Wallace, Anne M. Young
For omnivores to determine whether an unfamiliar item is an appropriate food, they could rely on personal information from sampling it themselves or rely on less risky observation of whether other individuals eat the item. Availability of information about fo…
Fernando Canova, Rodolfo Souza Faria, Elenice Aparecida de Moraes Ferrari
This study investigated effects of post-training treatment with phaclofen, GABA B receptor antagonist, on the memory of food location and on the expression of Synapsin I in the hippocampus of pigeons. Pigeons were trained in food location (7 sessions) and und…
Armando Freitas da Rocha, Eduardo Massad, Fabio Theoto Rocha, Marcelo Nascimento Burattini, 1 1, 1 1
Brazil has introduced a referendum regarding the prohibition of firearm commerce and propaganda arguments have invoked socially and personally driven issues in the promotion of voting in favor of and against firearm control, respectively. Here, we used differ…
Hiroshi Ito, Hirofumi Saito, Misato Oi, Tomoko Shiraishi, Shuang Meng, Victor Alberto Palacios
Previous studies have reported that the mirror neuron system plays a crucial role in social cognition. We examined whether the higher-order cognitive functions are involved in the activations in the mirror neuron area when we perceive simplified pseudo-postur…
Musiliu Adejare Lawal, Samuel Kolawole Mosaku, Bolanle Adeyemi Ola, Olufemi Morakinyo
Background: Association between violence and mental disorders has contributed immensely to the stigma associated with mental illness in the society; because people erroneously see mentally ill individuals as dangerous, they will not want to associate with the…
Min J. Lee, Nachum Dafny
The effects of chronic cocaine administration on the locomotor rhythmic patterns of adult female Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were recorded using an open-field testing assay. The animals were divided into four groups, control (saline), 3.0 mg/kg, 7.5 mg/kg, and 1…
Huanhuan Li, Wenjuan Lin, Junfa Li, Weiwen Wang
Here we tested the hypothesis that stress-induced alterations in Neurogranin (Ng) synthesis and/ or utilization might underlie stress-related depression and anxiety. Rats were randomly divided into five conditions: chronic swim stress (CS), acute swim stress…
Taryn G. Aubrecht, Bachir Abi Salloum, Maria Eugenia Ariza, Marshall Williams, Brenda Reader, Ronald Glaser, John Sheridan, Randy J. Nelson
Most adult humans have been infected by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a putative cause of chronic fatigue syndrome, and carry latent EBV. The EBV-encoded dUTPase can induce sickness responses in mice and chronic stress exacerbates this response. Because individua…
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The aim of the Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science is to publish original research articles and reviews in the general field of behavioural and brain function. Articles dealing with the neuroanatomical and neurochemical basis of behavior are especially welcomed. Multidisciplinary contributions from all fields of t… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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